The first Global Action Days, during the 2nd WTO ministerial conference in Geneva in May 1998, involved tens of thousands of people in more than 60 demonstrations and street parties on five continents.

Subsequent Global Action Days have included the ' carnival against capital ' ( June 18, 1999 ), the 3rd World Trade Organization summit in Seattle ( November 30, 1999 ), the International Monetary Fund / World Bank meeting in Prague ( September 26, 2000 ), the G8 meeting in Genoa ( June 21, 2000 ) the 4th WTO summit in Qatar ( November 9, 2001 ), etc.

Since Geneva, Global PGA conferences have been held before WTO ministerials: in Bangalore, India ( 1999 ), and in Cochabamba, Bolivia ( 2001 ).

As with the WTO in general, non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) such as Health Gap and Global Trade Watch also criticize what was negotiated in the Round on intellectual property and industrial tariffs as setting up too many constraints on policy-making and human needs.

Along with Global Exchange and the Ruckus Society, RAN played a central role in organizing the mass actions against the WTO ( World Trade Organization ) summit in Seattle in 1999.

Another well-known example of early Internet activism took place in 1998, when the Mexican rebel group EZLN used decentralized communications, such as cell phones, to network with developed world activists and help create the anti-globalization group Peoples Global Action ( PGA ) to protest the World Trade Organisation ( WTO ) in Geneva .< ref >

Examples of discussion of this issue can be found in the works of: Martina Timmermann et al., Institutionalizing Northeast Asia: Regional Steps toward Global Governance ; Douglas Lewis, Global Governance and the Quest for Justice-Volume I: International and Regional Organizations ; Olav Schram Stokke, " Examining the Consequences of International Regimes ," which discusses Northern, or Arctic region building in the context of international relations ; Jeffery Hart and Joan Edelman Spero, " Globalization and Global Governance in the 21st Century ," which discusses the push of countries such as Mexico, Brazil, India, China, Taiwan, and South Korea, " important regional players " seeking " a seat at the table of global decision-making "; Dr. Frank Altemöller, “ International Trade: Challenges for Regional and Global Governance: A comparison between Regional Integration Models in Eastern Europe and Africa – and the role of the WTO ”, and many others.

Along with Rainforest Action Network and the Ruckus Society, Global Exchange played a central role in organizing the mass actions against the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) summit in Seattle in 1999.

The World Trade Organization has claimed that a number of websites such as the Global Exchange, etc., " contain accusations against the WTO which are based on incorrect information or downright falsehoods.

*" International Trade and Investment "-Competition Policy, Corporate Governance / Transparency, E-commerce and Technology, Economic Sanctions, Energy, Foreign Direct Investment, Intellectual Property Rights, Regional Trading Blocs, Services, Tax Policy, WTO and Other Global Institutions.

Armenia joined the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) in January 2003.

Common targets include the World Bank ( WB ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) and free trade treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ), the Multilateral Agreement on Investment ( MAI ) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ).

* World Trade Organization ( WTO )

The price bands were ruled inconsistent with Chile's World Trade Organization ( WTO ) obligations in 2002, and the government has introduced legislation to modify them.

Croatia became a World Trade Organization ( WTO ) member in 2000 and started the Accession of Croatia to the European Union in 2003.

The Czech Republic participates in the United Nations ( UN ); World Trade Organization ( WTO ); International Monetary Fund ( IMF ); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ); International Energy Agency ( IEA ); North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the International Whaling Commission.

It also serves on the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), in addition to the Interamerican Development Bank ( IDB ), World Bank, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), Corporacion Andina de Fomento ( CAF ) and other multilateral agencies.

One of the most significant changes was the creation of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ).

Honduras is a member of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), the Central American Parliament ( PARLACEN ), the Central American Integration System ( SICA ), and the Central American Security Commission ( CASQ ).

Therefore, Hong Kong continues to play an active role in the international arena and maintains close contact with its international partners. Furthermore, Hong Kong continues to be an active, independent member of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) forum in the name of Hong Kong, China.

Hungary is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) since 1995, a member of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) since 1996, and a member of the European Union since 2004.

The country was admitted to the United Nations in 1955 and is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade / World Trade Organization ( GATT / WTO ), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), and the Council of Europe.

This category includes the United Nations ( UN ) and its specialized agencies, the Universal Postal Union, Interpol, the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), the World Customs Organization ( WCO ), and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ).

Within other international contexts, there are intergovernmental organizations such as the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) that have socially and economically significant dispute resolution functions but, again, even though their jurisdiction may be invoked to hear the cases, the power to enforce their decisions is at the will of the states affected, save that the WTO is permitted to allow retaliatory action by successful states against those states found to be in breach of international trade law.

The United States helped the Kyrgyz Republic accede to the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) in December 1998.

Latvia is a member of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) since 1999, and a member of the European Union since 2004.

However, following the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ) at the WTO, the 1988 Telecommunications Act was replaced with by the Telecommunications Act of 1998 which provided the legal framework to enable the emergence of a free and democratised telecommunications market on the island.

Mongolia joined the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) in 1997.

The Netherlands is an active and responsible participant in the United Nations system as well as other multilateral organizations such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ), World Trade Organization ( WTO ), and International Monetary Fund.

These directives implied precise emphasis on: the search for political coordination with emerging and developing countries, namely India, South Africa, Russia and China ; creation of the Union of South American Nations and its derivative bodies, such as the South American Security Council ; strengthening of Mercosul ; projection at the Doha Round and WTO ; maintenance of relations with developed countries, including the United States ; undertaking and narrowing of relations with African countries ; campaign for the reform of the United Nations Security Council and for a permanent seat for Brazil ; and defense of social objectives allowing for a greater equilibrium between the States and populations.

* Active participation in the work of international organizations, UN and its specialized agencies, WTO – and at the regional level – OSCE, Council of Europe against global threats: terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, global warming, organized crime, damages to the environment, economic and social issues, disrespect for human rights etc.

* An unofficial chart of the Marrakech Agreement ( at WTO Cell, Government of the Punjab )

Ministers at the 4th WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar respect him as the driving force behind the decision to launch a new round of multilateral trade negotiations.

For China and other WTO members, however, textile quotas under the MFA expired at the end of 2004 as agreed in the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.

On November 7, 2006, the General Council at the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) approved Vietnam's accession package.

Most recently, at the fifteenth general assembly in 2003, the WTO general council and the UN agreed to establish the WTO as a specialized agency of the UN.

Yemen was granted observer status at the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) in 1999 and in 2002 and 2003 submitted necessary documentation for full membership.

It also continues to be used more generally to refer to any efforts at coalition-building between environmenalists and labor, as with the famous " teamsters and turtles " politics of the WTO Meeting of 1999 and the continuing anti-globalization movement.

The country pursues a moderate foreign policy that places heavy reliance on multinational diplomacy, especially at the United Nations and World Trade Organization ( WTO ).

The process was aimed at bringing Barbados ' sector into compliance with the World Trade Organisation ( WTO ).

Large scale International anti-capitalist protests are widely seen as dawning between 1998 and 2000 with events such as the protests at the Birmingham 1998 G8, J18, the Seattle 1999 WTO protests and the Prague 2000 IMF protests.

* International Trade Organization ( Proposed at Conference but not ratified by U. S. Senate ; later revived in the WTO ).

In March 2005 he was appointed to become the Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ) following his term at the WTO, a post he took up in late 2005.

* Biography at WTO

A separate agenda — only tangentially related to the Washington Consensus as framed by Williamson — concerns various programs for multilateral trade liberalization, whether at the global ( WTO ) or regional level, including the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) and DR-CAFTA agreements.

Protest activity surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, which was to be the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations, occurred on November 30, 1999 ( nicknamed " N30 " on similar lines to J18 and similar mobilizations ), when the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington, United States.

The scale of the demonstrations — even the lowest estimates put the crowd at over 40, 000 — dwarfed any previous demonstration in the United States against a world meeting of any of the organizations generally associated with economic globalization ( such as the WTO, the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), or the World Bank ).

" The WTO seems to be on a crusade to increase private profit at the expense of all other considerations, including the well-being and quality of life of the mass of the world's people ," says Ronnie Hall, trade campaigner at Friends of the Earth International.